Bible on Impermanence

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.